WHAT DETERMINES GOD’S DAY
OF JUDGMENT AND WRATH?
Romans 2:4-5
Rev.6:16-17
Rev.14:10-12
When
is God’s “Day of Wrath”? Rom.2:5; Rev.6:17. Should we follow the
teaching that
God’s wrath
begins when He again deals with Israel at the Endtime? Or
does His wrath
(orgay) follow the “end
of days” with Christ taking vengeance in one day
on all who
reject the Gospel”? 2 Thess.1:10. Is God’s
wrath a 7-year process or a
one day
affair? The latter view was the belief of early Church Fathers. But
Plato taught that God
is too exalted to be affected by “perturbations of anger” (thumos). This
led to
translating thumos (anger) as "wrath" and gave rise to the belief that, to
escape His Plagues
of so-
called "wrath", Christians will be removed from earth during the Endtime of great
tribulation and wrath!
This tradition of
the great difference between anger and wrath (thus banning any reference
to a God of
anger) has filtered down thru
most Bibles due
to
Plato’s philosophy as per “The Dictionary of the
Apostolic Church”,
published in 1917,
by T. Clark.
God’s “makro-thumos” (long-anger) was translated as “long-suffering”.
But to avoid translating “thumos”
as “anger”, it was usually translated
as “wrath”!
Unfortunately this removed the difference! Thumos and
orgay became
synonyms instead of
antonyms after the “vain tradition” of Plato and Church Fathers! Col.2:8.
As a result, most
Christians believe “virtually no difference exists between God’s anger
and wrath”!
Paul
wrote: “On the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment
of God, He will
render to every
man according to their deeds…eternal life to those who
know His long-anger
(makro-thumia) leads to
repentance but indignation (thumos) and wrath (orgay; KJV)
to the unrighteous”!! Rom.2:4-5,8. The
NASB inverts thumos and orgay with “wrath
and indignation” coming on the wicked so as to ostensibly
avoid describing God as “angry”. Because of this variance in Rom.2:8, the meanings changed
from
antonyms to
synonyms!!!
The prevailing view
today promises that we must be removed from earth to escape the
Plagues of God’s
so-called “wrath during the great tribulation”! God’s long-anger (makro-thumos)
continues to the Day of
Wrath according to Rom.2:4-5. Only then do
His “anger and
wrath mix” together. “Great earthquakes
destroy earth’s mountains and
cities and move
islands out of place. Christ comes to tread the winepress
in anger and
wrath”. Blood
reaches the horses’ bridles on that Day. Most Bibles mix God’s “wrath
(orgay) with
thumos” instead of having His “anger (thumos) mix with orgay”!
Rev.14:10.
Because of Plato’s
“vain tradition” of God’s aloofness, untouched by anger, translators
inverted and
inadvertently made anger and wrath mean the same thing. They effectively
fail to show the
difference
they intended to show! Translating thumos as “wrath” made
the 7 Last Plagues
“complete God’s wrath”
instead of “completing His anger”!! Then it is argued being “kept from God’s
wrath” means the
Rapture must precede the Tribulation!!! Rev.15:1; 16:1.
This prevailing
view results from twisting thumos to mean “wrath” rather than “anger”.
In the text leading
up to God’s Hour of Judgment on the Day of Wrath, Rev.14:7; Rom.2:5, most
Bibles switch the words
so that God’s wrath (thumos) mixes full strength
in His Cup of
Anger/Indignation (orgay)! Rev.14:10.
Translations assume the 7 Plagues
prematurely “complete God’s wrath”. They terminate God’s long-
anger (patience) seven
years too soon!
In discussions on
the baptistboard.com, I was branded as presumptuous and guilty of “much ado
about
nothing”, of being an “error-schmerror”, as not “seeing the forest for
the trees” or of
making the
KJV translators a “bunch of retards”. One wrote: “Scripture
says God’s anger `burned’ against certain
nations, so wrath
must be the
brand of hot dogs he makes out of them”. Another: “Error finders and
artists
should give us an up-to-date series of `Looney Tunes’"! What about this:
“I'm
50% Labrador
retriever. I'll prove it. Get me a Labrador and I'll
retrieve it. Have
you got a Labrador? Then Shaddup”!
“Why did KJV translators not once render thumos as “anger”? What of
twisting
"thumos" to mean
“wrath” when it stands alone after first being
combined with
orgay? We see the two words inverted in
Rev.14:10 to make thumos mean "wrath"!
Then with "thumos" standing ALONE in the next 4 instances,
it is
assumed that thumos means "wrath"!!! Rev.14:19; Rev.15:1,7;
Rev.16:1.
But, finally (and this is utterly
inconsistent) when used again with
orgay, the KJV
translated
"thumos" as
less than wrath (fierceness) when it is
combined again with
"orgay"! They got it right at last!!
That is,
after changing thumos to mean "wrath", it would have made no
sense to
combine
"wrath with wrath"!!!
Rev.16:19;
Rev.19:15.
Why has the Holy Spirit not revealed that God's "long-anger" (makro-thumia and
mega-thumia"; Rev.
14:19),
finally merges
with His wrath on the Day of
Wrath to
destroy all who refuse to repent? [Yet He
allows Israel en
masse to
“mourn,
beg to escape and be kept alive”]. Matt.24:30; Luke 21:36; Luke
17:30-33;
Rom.11:25-27.
If translators had rendered thumos as anger instead of wrath, Strong’s
Concordance would
not have
made them synonymous! By inverting these
words,
even in Eph.4:31 and Col.3:8
with respect to us,
we are now infected by
a NEW "tradition" that eliminates the difference
between anger and wrath but,
when
both words are combined, wrath becomes “anger” and
anger becomes
“wrath”!
The "switch" blurs God’s wrath that refers ONLY to the “horrors” of
Hell. Eternal
torment comes when
armies gather to
the
plains of Armageddon. After the Plagues “exhaust God's thumos"
(New
Jerusalem
Bible), none of the wicked will escape. Rev.6:16-17; Rev.16:17-21.
The KJV never
rendered #2372 as “anger”. Even with humans who ARE subject to anger,
orgay
was translated as “anger” and thumos as “wrath” in Eph.4:31and Col.3:8.
The
meanings are
twisted in the text on Hell. Rev.14:10-12. Bound by
tradition and
the philosophy of Platonism,
they stuck with human reasoning lest they demean
the character of God as subject to the human
emotion of anger. But did so at the cost of making
both
words mean virtually the
same thing.
God's long-anger allows men to repent for 1900 years and then mixes with
wrath to
"destroy the
destroyers of earth" in one day, the last day! Thumos
"mixes with
orgay when God takes
vengeance on the Day Christ comes in flaming fire
against
those who refuse the Gospel!! He
raises up and gathers the Elect; on one
of the days immediately after the great tribulation; at the
(kairos) “time
appointed by the 7th Trumpet"! 2 Thess.1:7-10; Mark 13:24-27; Matt.24:29-31;
Rev.6:16-17;
Rev.11:18; Rev.16:19-21; Rev.19:15-21.
In Revelation God’s wrath is first mentioned
at the 6th Seal,
the signs of which
occur “after the great tribulation”. His wrath is not mentioned
again until the 7th
Trumpet as "God is not willing any should perish ... certainly not until that last day
comes after men treasure up wrath against the day of wrath ... after God has
endured the vessels
of wrath prepared for destruction". 2 Pet.3:9; Rom.2:4-5;
Rom.9:22.
God's "long-thumia" (long-suffering; Latin) permits evil men to repent
until the "Day of Wrath"!
Beast worshipers gathered to Armageddon will perish as
“the wine of God's anger mixes in
the Cup of His wrath”! Rev.14:10-12.
The KJV correctly translates thumos as “indignation" in Romans 2:8
(where the Textus
Receptus has "thumos and orgay" with thumos coming first). But in
Rev.14:10, it is just
the opposite when it translates thumos as "wrath" and orgay as
"indignation"! More
recently discovered manuscripts have "orgay and thumos" instead of
"thumos and orgay"
in Rom.2:8. This adds to the confusion with thumos as "indignation"
in the T.R. and
orgay
as “indignation”
in other manuscripts!! It's confusing because it again blurs
the truth of
God withholding wrath until the
Day of Wrath!!!
The wine of His anger,
not wrath, mixes in the Cup of Wrath...and then
pours out
on all
those who reject the Gospel on the Day of Wrath after the Last Plague
empties in the air;
after Seal 6 reveals the “Day of
God’s and the Lamb’s
Wrath has come”; after the 7th
Trumpet proclaims the "appointed (kairos) hour
of
God's wrath has come"!!! Rev.16:17;
Rev.6:17; Rev.11:18.
God’s wrath
immediately destroys Babylon and Beast worshipers at the 7th
Trumpet. The
failure to
recognize a "philosophy of vain deceit" (Col.2:8) has
infected our view of the
unexpectedness of God's wrath! Men have "inverted"
the
meaning of anger and wrath based
on Plato's false view that we must not
attribute to
God the human emotion of "anger"!! They
superficially covered a
falsehood by
making "thumos and orgay" interchangeable and then
inadvertently destroyed
the very concept they intended to uphold!!!
They erased the distinction between patience and wrath until His anger
mixes in the Cup of
Wrath on the Day Christ appears! The KJV could have translated:
"Plagues complete His
indignation" since they do not complete or contain His
wrath. If
the words anger and wrath
are interchangeable, it wouldn’t have mattered
if
the KJV had translated thumos as “anger”!!
But long-anger continues to
the last day. The Cup of God's combined “anger and wrath" pours
out its
deadly
wine after the last Plague empties in the air; after exhausting His
anger; after the
6th Seal opens and the 7th Trumpet proclaims "God's wrath
has come"!!!
Rev.11:18.
God's long-anger means He is unwilling for any to perish. His patience
will no longer be
operative toward those who "disobey the Gospel ON THE DAY
Christ comes in flaming
fire and vengeance". His orgay will be quick and total
and eternal...without mercy toward
the unrepentant and without excuse for
those "blaspheming His name as their tongues rot
in their mouths"! The OT
agrees that “sinners are exterminated on the Day of the Lord
when His anger and
wrath” unite. Isa.13:9-13.
"All who beg for mercy on that day (including ALL Israel) will be saved.
There’s no escape
for those who continue to "blaspheme God"; yet during
the 4th and 5th Plagues, these
wicked men have an option to repent...while
the days of salvation remain. Rev.16:9-11.
“Wrath”, being applied
inadvertently
to the Plagues (Rev.15:1,7; Rev.16:1), has been used to
allow us to escape
“the tribulation of (so-called) wrath”. The Day of Wrath is not a 7-year
“day”. Rom 5:9; I Thess.5:9. This new, infectious tradition of men mistakenly assumes God’s
anger and wrath are virtually the same. It supports the theory that we
are not “appointed to
suffer the great tribulation”. What a shock if the DAY
of God’s Wrath is not 7 years; but a
single 12-Hour-Day!
Consider that Day as being the Lastday. Beginning with Rev.6:12,
whatever leads up to
that day John describes in retrospect; as in Flashbacks!
Since Seal 6 opens “after the
great tribulation”, Seal 7 also opens afterward.
With the last seal broken, the Scroll’s inner
contents come into full view. A
half hour of silence ends showing the 6th Trumpet had already
killed two billion people, a third of mankind!
In that half hour Martyrs witness the video display of evidence for God’s
judgment. In the hour
of the great quake that kills 7000 Beast
worshipers in a
tenth of Jerusalem, the Two Prophets
are caught up to heaven to join
all the Martyrs for Christ in the Judgment and Verdict symbolized
by fire cast to
earth from the
Altar in the Temple! Rev.8:1-5. “No one was able to enter the Temple
until the
last of 7 Plagues had emptied in the air…for the Temple had been filled with the
smoke of
God’s
glory and power”!! Rev.15:8. At the 7th Trumpet, the "temple was
open"!!! Rev.11:19.